Originally posted by Melody
Now is the time of salvation. Now is the time we live in. Now is the time of our obedience. We have no promise of tomorrow in this life.
Our salvation is not in the past, it is NOW. If we are not in obedience NOW, we are not saved.
This is a daily walk.
r 15:31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
We are to keep our bodies under subjection daily.
We have not yet finished our race.
Quote by c.moore
Now is the time of salvation is like really saying now we are grafted into the vine tree, and we are the branches, and when live on the tree we should bring forth fruits when we stay connected to the tree, but notice the importance of it all that you belong to the tree, and you don`t need to obey to be grafted, but you need to stay on the tree and get your rewards by your good fruits you bring, by letting Jesus work through you .read again Joh:15:1: I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Joh:15:2: Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Joh:15:3: Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Joh:15:4: Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh:15:5: I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Joh:15:6: If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Joh:15:7: If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Joh:15:8: Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
You said :Now is the time we live in.
Do you mean Jesus living in us like Joh:14:17: Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you???
You said Melody :Now is the time of our obedience.
You are missing the whole message God is teaching us.
We obey only for one reason, and this is not for our salvation , but the only thing that make us want to obey is alone the love.
I said this before, and I`ll say this again that the reason why we get married is because of love, and the relationship between your partner, and this is that which help you to be faithful, trustful, and honor , and do all you can for you dream partner is alone the love. The more you know your partner , the more you want to do for them, with pleasure, and your partner won`t say first stay faithfull and do all you can for me and after you die I will marry you.
That why God see`s our hearts before we were even born and has chossen us to be his children , because God already see`s the end, and he has already put your name in the book of life, and already given you eternal life, and has given you a soft heart to accept the blood of Jesus, and trust HIM , and love him, Thank God for the grace to do that.
The bible mention that it is the love that make us obey, not that we work to get loved by God.
Jesus did not say first obey me then I will love you, or first get water baptized and I will love you.
God knows that the more we love God the more we will want to obey, and we will want to read and study the bible to see all we can do just to show how much we love Jesus, which will bring forth good fruits for the kingdom of God.
Our daily walk is really our daily love for Jesus alone.
Melody we keep Jesus commandments because of the love relationship, not because we are fighting, or running a race not to get to hell, but because we want to see and be with Jesus the one we already married, and I want to be a good bride.
You need to study 1John 4 to see what Loves alone do for us.
I think this is really what we try to get other to understand about Faith alone saves, meaning the love, and faith alone saves because we know, and the bible says as long as we stay in the love alone to Jesus, and trust Him alone we will have eternal life, and as long as we accept Jesus as our Lord and savior, we can carry the marriage papers that we are married to Jesus registered already in the city hall, I mean the book of life.
Most people look more to Jesus as their judge ,rather as their lover, what a same.
Joh:3:17: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Love alone to Jesus help us want to keep all the commandments.
Joh:14:15: If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Joh:14:21: He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Joh:13:34: A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Joh:13:35: By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
1Jo:3:1: Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
1Jo:3:2: Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
1Jo:3:3: And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself
, even as he is pure.
I just would like to add about those that think saved always saved, can be stoped if the person 1Jo:2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
1Jo:2:23: Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
Also for those that are fake christian you can see this 1Jo:1:6: If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1Jo:1:7: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1Jo:1:8: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
So it look like all our lives we will have sins, but we ask for forgiveness everyday but we are only born again once.
Do you know somebody that was born two times in the natural life?????
So also no one should not be born again everyday, or planted into the vine tree as a branch.
Either we belong to the tree or the kingdom of God or we don`t, and we must be hacked of and cast into fire.
Let get all the rewards we can get by running the race to please Jesus and He will say one day well done my faithful childrens.
Let God bless you